Microsoft AJAX RTM

Microsoft has just released the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 RTM. Please note that if you’re using the current version of Covalentia Version 2.1.1.27388, you’ll get numerous errors because it is still using the Microsoft AJAX 1.0 RC (Release Candidate). A few people have already e-mailed me, and I will do the migration as soon as I can. In the mean time, if you want to do it yourself, you can simply follow the migration guide:

http://ajax.asp.net/documentation/Migration_Guide_RC_to_RTM.aspx

I don’t see that many changes, so I think that it should be relatively straightforward.

If you have any question, please don’t hesitate to e-mail me at support@covalent-tech.com. Oh, and thank you for your support ;)

A New Venture

So it begins. One of my business partners has partly left Covalent Technology and joined another team, Innovation City (Innovasia), and I am pretty much alone in this nice office. However, this new development will not affect Covalentia in any way. The direction will stay the same – Covalentia will be FREE for all to download and use, and Covalent Technology will continue to service its customers. In fact, there are some new leads and possible funds that may come into play and fit nicely into Covalent’s sustainability equation. And in addition, by the end of this month, I will launch a new community portal, codenamed The Great Hunt – an Employment & Project Outsourcing Community Portal. This portal will complement Covalentia’s Training Program – to provide trainees with a channel to market themselves to the outside world and get better exposures.

So, despite my early plan to join IPerintis for a better pay, leave Covalent Technology and let it sail down the drain and rot (just kidding), I am the one who’s being left behind :)

On another note, along with my other partner who owns this office, we are venturing into a trading business. As a result, a new company, Covalent Engineering, is formed. In its early inception, Covalent Engineering plans to become an authorized distributor for Proguard which carries a range of personal safety products. It’s a tough market out there, I know. But, trading is relatively a good business, and I have to start somewhere ;)

Covalentia Version 2.1 Reloaded

There are a few minor bugs in the recently released Covalentia Version 2.1 which I came across while working on Covalentia Version 3.0. I’m going to upload the files again once the internet connection here gets better. It’s very slow at the moment but has got nothing to do with the recent Taiwan’s earthquake. The portal is hosted at some place which I can’t mention for FREE. And so, you can’t expect much from a free stuff ;)

I saw the total downloads this morning was around 128 (6 days or so after it was released). Not bad eh? If you’ve already used it to develop your application, you might want to replace (or do some changes to) the following files:

• Covalentia/Controls/Globals/Excel.cs and ExcelResults.cs:
  The #linkpath# string replacement at the bottom of Page_Submit method should spell #LinkPath#.
  
• RDT/Skins/Default/Administration/User/Edit.ascx:
  The ControlToValidate property of ConfirmPassword’s RequiredFieldValidator should be set to ConfirmPassword.

That’d be all ;)

New Release & Commitment

Happy New Year to all! I know it’s rather late to wish now but I’ve always been a late bloomer, and it’s better late than never ;)

Well, I’m back from a good long holiday, and ready to resume work and continue to develop FREE Covalentia. In fact, I’ve already uploaded Covalentia Version 2.1 as promised earlier. This release includes:

• PostgreSQL 8.1 database support
• Database tables and stored procedures optimizations
• Codes optimization
• ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Release Candidate
• New look for Sub-Tabs using AJAX DropDownList
• Relocations of folders, files and images
• Bug-fixing of globalization issue
• Better documentations for codes, tooltips and help (partial - this is a lot of work)

At the moment, I’m working on the next release (Version 3) which will contain a lot of major changes, especially in the Data Access and Business Object Layers. It will also include other new features such as .NET Framework 3.0, ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 (if they decide to release it soon enough), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Oracle database support and more. If you are one of the users who frequently download Covalentia (one of the 300 or more people registered at the Covalentia Community Portal) and you want to contribute some ideas on how the future Covalentia should be or look like, feel free to e-mail me at support@covalent-tech.com.